I Want to Go Home
2025 · 1m · Canada
Directed by Mégan Dupont
Genres: animation, drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Through layered 3D and collage animation, a person experiencing sudden vision loss moves through medical images and childhood memories as clarity fades, flickers and gives way to new ways of remembering.
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Vision loss as a metaphor is the obvious play; Dupont's real move is letting the medical imagery *become* memory rather than symbolize it—collage and 3D layering don't illustrate the premise, they ARE the perceptual shift, which is genuinely unsettling in a way most experimental shorts fail to land.
A formally precise meditation on opacity and recall that situates itself squarely in the lineage of experimental animation concerned with perception itself—the restraint of the one-minute runtime and the discipline of the layering technique place this in conversation with more established works of structural abstraction.
The alchemy here is that Dupont chose to render memory loss not through clarity-to-blur but through the *collision* of overlapping visual registers—that layering decision, where medical precision and childhood fragments occupy the same space simultaneously, is what transforms a capable concept into something that actually *feels* like cognitive vertigo on a micro-budget.